Marian McPartland Quotes

• Well it’s because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it’s a shame.

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• There are a million good tunes.

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• The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don’t have a big enough house to accommodate everything.

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• That’s something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you’re not feeling right about what you’re doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don’t know if that’s true, but I do it.

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• So if I think of something in my head I don’t have to do it. If I can’t do I don’t do it, I do something else.

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• So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She’s got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.

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• Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

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• My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I’m playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

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• It’s awful to have to, but I’ve started thinking about that, you know. 86. I’m thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I’d like to have my brains.

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• I’m trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won’t be out until next year. I don’t know.

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• I’m not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

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• I’d just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

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• I would really hate to have e-mail. It’s bad enough with all the mail I get.

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• I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what’s happening.

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• I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don’t play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I’m really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.

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• I like minor tunes.

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• I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I’ve got them spread out all over the place.

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• By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

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• Boy, I’m just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they’ll look around and get my record out.

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• Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don’t know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven’t seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.

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Marian McPartland (23)

Birth:	20th March, 1918
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Anchor, Composer, Pianist, Writer

About

Margaret Marian McPartland was an English-born American jazz pianist, composer and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 until 2011.

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